Word: truck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Holding down the biggest job, and perhaps the hardest working politician in the College, is Roger A. Moore '53, HYRC vice-president. Since the end of June, Moore has spoken nightly from Boston street corners on behalf of the state Republican ticket. He orates from the back of a truck, festooned with a replica of the State House. In his four months of forays into every ethnic neighborhood in the Bosto narea, Moore has used almost all the tricks of the politicians' trade. Here is his technique...
Parking on a likely corner, the truck blares forth recorded music on its system--Irish jigs or Italian tarentella, depending on the neighborhood. As soon as a crowd forms, Moore begins to orate for the Republican ticket. First he softens the crowd up with references to their homeland. (You've got to be careful not to say the wrong thing," Moore says. "For instance, you don't praise Jan Masaryk in front of a Slovak group--the Slovaks hate the Czech's guts.") Then relates the near and dear to his subject ("Garibaldi was a Republican, too.") Often Moore flavors...
...public name-calling between the groups that marked previous elections. Two years ago, the HYRC ran as ad in the CRIMSON attacking the HLU as "political charlatans" for its "fakery and moral bankruptcy" in challenging Republican gubernatorial nominee Arthur W. Coolidge '06 to debate Gov. Dever via sound truck in Harvard Square. The HLU retorted in kind...
...after a few moments, an elderly woman spectator entered the Harvard Spa, opposite Lamont Liberary, purchased some tomatoes, and hurled them at the sound truck. A crowd congregated and overflowed into Massachusetts Avenue, stalling traffic...
Crowds began to gather in the Square a half hour before the scheduled time of the General's appearance. High school students left their classrooms a half hour before the official afternoon recess. By 1:30, the throng was large enough to slow traffic. At that time, a sound truck plugging Governor Adlai Stevenson and operated by Walter C. Carrington '52 1L and Lawrence Erbst '51 1L was rocked and almost overturned by Eisenhower partisans as it drove through the Square. Students rocked other cars and opened the doors of a few. One trolley was derailed...